Comments on: The Forever Movie

By: Launch pad countdown | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Launch pad countdown | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:15:55 +0000

[...] than famous author Joe Haldeman, who wrote The Forever War, a classic piece of satirical fiction (which is in the works for a Hollywood movie, too!). Joe is a great guy and it’ll be good to see him again. Also attending is my bud Scott [...]

By: Launch pad closes March 15th! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Launch pad closes March 15th! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:00:47 +0000

[...] and it’ll be held this year from July 14 – 21. The special lecturer is Joe Haldeman. Yes, that Joe Haldeman. I’ll be there too, probably later in the week (I have to be in Vegas for TAM 7 the week [...]

By: coolstar

coolstar — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:39:45 +0000

Please, The Forever War is THE most over-rated novel in history (more so than even Catch-22). ho-hum, another cynical anti-war novel by another hack Vietnam vet writer.
not original in 1974, worse now. Scalzi’s Old Man’s War is much, much better on so many levels: more realistic (not just stupidly cynical), MUCH better characterization, and on and on…….

By: Jennifer Ouellette

Jennifer Ouellette — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:54:48 +0000

The original novel apparently was heavily cut when first published. There is a new uncut edition coming out February 9th. Order on Amazon today!

By: John Charles

John Charles — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:38:20 +0000

Just like Stuart and his dad, I read The Forever War in its Analog serialzation in the 1970s. Haldeman impressed me as a giant of detiled, hard-edged science fiction, right up there with Heinlein and Clarke. Really hope the movie does it justice.

By: RonS

RonS — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:13:24 +0000

This might sound a bit odd…
I love the skies and I love anime and I love sci fi books and I dislike tall, bearded men.
See where this is headed yet ?
You probably don’t and I don’t blame you : I am relating to a short Makoto Shinkai marvelously animated piece called “Voices of Distant Star” – read it up on wikipedia. It carried the same concept of relativistic time distortion separting two childhood lovers (WOW!). Yet it does all that, and provides a rather bittersweet conclusion, all within 22 minutes. That was what first pulled me towards those two sci classics : THE FOREVER WAR by Joe Haldeman and FALLEN DRAGON by Peter F. Hamilton. They are both crying out for a movie, and their prayers have been answered.
TOLD you this would be a weird discussion…

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:05:02 +0000

I read it ages ago and I loved it. I also read the sequels. I really enjoy Haldeman’s work and I llok forward to this movie. Greetings from Argentina.